POST MORTEM EXAMINERS 759

there be no Medical Society in any county, or if the Medical Society of any
county fails or refuses to submit such list of names, the said Commission
shall proceed to appoint a Deputy Medical Examiner, or Examiners, for
said county. Each Deputy Medical Examiner shall receive as compensa-
tion $15.00 for each death he investigates, in accordance with the provisions
of this Article; such Deputy Medical Examiner when it becomes necessary,
shall have the power to deputize any other physician in the county to act
as Deputy Medical Examiner in his place and stead.

1939, ch. 369, sec. 4.

4. It shall be the duty of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Assistant,
Medical Examiners and the Deputy Medical Examiners to attend to all
the medical functions now devolving upon the coroners and post mortem
physicians in Baltimore City, or upon coroners or Justices of the Peace,
acting as Coroners, in the several counties of the State, and to perform
all the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this Article.

The office of said Chief Medical Examiner, and the Assistant Medical
Examiners, shall be maintained in such building in Baltimore City as
may be provided by the City of Baltimore, and the said Commission shall
see that proper equipment is provided for the use of said Chief Medical
Examiner and Assistant Medical Examiners, or arrange for the use of the
Laboratory and other equipment of the State Department of Health, the
Health Department of Baltimore City, the State Police Department and
the Police Department of Baltimore City. It shall be the duty of the Chief
Medical Examiner, or an Assistant Medical Examiner, to be on call at all
times for the performance of the duties set forth in this Article.

1939, ch. 369, sec. 5,

5. When any person shall die in Baltimore City, or in any county of the
State, as. a result of violence, or by suicide, or by casualty, or suddenly when
in apparent health or when unattended by a physician, or in any suspicious
or unusual manner, it shall be the duty of the police or sheriff immediately
to notify the Chief Medical Examiner and Assistant Medical Examiner,
or a Deputy Medical Examiner, as the case may be, and the State's Attorney
of Baltimore City, or of the county, as the case may be, of the known
f acts concerning the time, place, manner and circumstances of such death.
Immediately upon receipt of such, notification, the said Medical Examiner
shall go to. the dead body and take charge of the same. Such Medical Ex-
aminer shall fully investigate the essential facts concerning the medical
causes of death and may take the names and addresses of as many witnesses
thereto as may be practicable to obtain, and, before leaving the premises
shall reduce such facts, as he may deem necessary to writing and file the
same in his office. The Police Officer or Sheriff present at such investiga-
tion, or if no officer be present, then the Medical Examiner shall, in the
absence of the next, kin of the deceased person, take possession of all prop-
erty of value found on such person, make an, exact inventory thereof on his
report and deliver such property to the Police Department in Baltimore
City or Sheriff of the county, as the case may be, which shall surrender
the same to the person entitled to its custody or possession; such Medical
Examiner shall take possession of any object or articles which, in his
opinion, may be useful in establishing the cause of death, and deliver them
to the State's Attorney.